THE DRINK BILL.
It seems almost impossible to resist the inference that the decrease is duo to the check which last year saw given to the prosperity and to the spending power of the population. It has been argued that increased prosperity brought with it an increased expenditure on drink; it is pretty clear that a check to that prosperity has had precisely the opposite effect. It seems as if a financial crisis "was a more effective temperance advocate than all the organisations which are at work in the .country. Within certain limits, the dependence of the consumption of liquor on the general spending power of the country seems clearly made out. —“Hawke’s Bay Herald.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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115THE DRINK BILL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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